Posted on 09/06/2024 9:30:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
It does indeed. Unforgiving.
I was kind of thinking it might still have attitudinal thrusters fir maneuvering and spatial orientation.
Sure, just swing by AutoZone and pick up a tow strap.
In space, no one can hear you laugh.
I bet it goes just as planned. Let’s see who’s right.
I don’t blame them! I WOULD, TOO!............
WHAT NEXT FLIGHT ????
I’ll take “Starliner burns up for $500.00, Alex.”
Chutzpah!
Yes or No, will it blow?
Didn’t Starliner already have a successful unmanned return?
“NASA on Thursday issued a timeline and a set of criteria for the Starliner’s departure from the ISS and return to Earth.”
Of which the article did not bother to report.
Live Video from the International Space Station (Official NASA Stream)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfEr5XCFNWM
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Undocking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cJVyHo61M0
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Re-entry and Landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ0T-cZWh78
LIVE! Boeing Starliner Undock & Return
The Launch Pad
410K subscribers
4301 watching now
Started streaming 108 minutes ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueziZxViWCc
Uncrewed return to Earth on Friday evening,
Kind of like comet watching have cameras ready.
It’s free burn 9 or 12 complete
https://www.boeing.com/space/starliner/launch/index.html#watch
It’s live right now
Starliner burns complete, outside the exclusion radius, ten min till it’s outside the 4km eclipse and in uncoordinated free flight back to earth. It’s on a free drift trajectory now to outside that 4km ellipsoid it basically cannot hit the ISS now. Once it’s outside the 4*2*2km area it’s free to deorbit burn and reentry is a given then....hope the thrusters can keep it’s shield forward or maybe they ballast loaded it so even on a pure ballistic entry it’s buttfirst heavy. No thrusters needed then.
Thanks for the links.
Blue Origin Misses Its Mars Launch - SpaceX Gets Grounded (For 3 days) - Deep Space Updates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L8C6wjmFv0
My pleasure. I wandered off about 10 minutes to go, got doing something, and missed the undock. :^) Replay worked though.
CNN is keeping their updates going.
More like Storytime updates during the lull:
https://www.cnn.com/science/live-news/nasa-boeing-starliner-capsule-09-06-24/index.html
Boeing:
You’d think T CrB would be lighting up for all of the excitement.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’s US release today as well.
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